AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

from Franklin Furnace

The Queerteenth Festival is a yearly event in upstate New York, Hudson Valley that highlights the creativity of black trans, non-binary queer artists. This year's event features a film festival, night market. and block party to celebrate the day our ancestors in Galveston, Texas heard about the end of slavery. Our festival theme, BlackBodyQueerBody. It is about telling the truth about our lives as storytellers, world bridgers, shapeshifters, radical lovers and revolutionaries. Makers are invited to explore black queerness as a place of aliveness that is vital to our collective liberation. Queerteenth is about honoring and giving voice to queer trans ancestors who were present on that day in Texas in 1865 and is an acknowledgement and celebration of the multiplicity of black experience.

This year's Queerteenth Festival is a project by Qpop which is s a collective that organizes BIPOC centered Queer Pop-up events in the Hudson Valley with a mission of spreading joy and healing as a means of resistance.

All films submitted will be either shown on-line or at one of our in-person outdoor screenings on the weekend of June 18-19. Films selected for the in-person portion of the festival are eligible to win an audience favorite cash prize.

Outdoor screening venues are the famous Bubble Laundromat parking lot in Midtown Kingston and an historic building in the Rondout community near the Hudson River, Downtown. Outdoor projection and sound will be provided by Radio Kingston.

Artists of the African Diaspora are invited to submit works to the festival.
Entry is free.
Makers must retain all the rights to the films they submit.
All submissions must be at least 3 minutes long.
Individual artists and film collectives are welcome to enter.

DEADLINE: May 15th

SUBMIT WORK: https://filmfreeway.com/QUEERTEENTHFILMFESTIVAL
FESTIVAL DETAILS: https://www.artlifekingston.com/

Email qpopproductions@gmail.com for more information.